4th Nine Weeks Social Studies Homework (8th Grade)

Many Southerners felt ________________ threatened their way of life. They believed slavery was a necessary part of the Southern economy.

• Abolitionists

• Transcendentalists

• Suffragettes

• Temperance

Some reformers were inspired by what they heard at revival meetings. They called for _________________, which means to drink little or no alcohol.

• Abolition

• Temperance

• Women's Suffrage

• Transcendentalism

People at the Seneca Falls Convention also talked about __________, or the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wanted the statement to say that women must have the right to vote.

• Abolition

• Temperance

• Suffrage

• Transcendentalism

The ___________________ stressed a connection between people and nature. They wrote that a person’s conscience, or sense of right and wrong, was important.

• Transcendentalists

• Abolitionists

• Suffragettes

• Temperance

People who favored _________________ thought the Constitution was an agreement among the states to create a national government.

• Union

• Slavery

• Sectionalism

• States' Rights

Most Americans felt loyal to the region where they lived. Each region of the country had different goals and interests. These differences are called ______________________.

• States' Rights

• Sectionalism

• Slavery

• Union

Many white Southerners believed the Republicans would try to end slavery. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina ___________ from the Union.

• Suffraged

• Abolished

• Seceded

• Tempered

The __________ won the war. Now that the war was over, it was time for the country to become whole again.

• Transcendentalists

• Suffragettes

• Confederacy

• Union

By the end of 1865, nearly all the former _______________ states had set up new governments under Johnson’s plan.

• Confederate

• Union

• Temperance

• Suffrage

Many freed people—along with many whites—had no other choice but to become ________________ and farm on land owned by whites.

• Confederates

• Sharecroppers

• Unionists

• Abolitionists